Book Cover Creator is an excellent tool from ReadWriteThink that allows students to easily craft beautiful book covers. There are three types of book covers students can create: Front cover only, full dust jacket, and front and back cover. Using text tools, students will be able to stylize their book titles they way they want. They can also choose from the colour palette in the Background Tools to customize the look of their cover or better yet use …

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If you happen to teach in a 1:1 classroom then you will definitely be concerned about the educational apps to use with your students. There are tons out there for sure, but many of them are not worthwhile. To this end we curated this selection of some of the most popular apps and tools among 1:1 classroom teachers. Browse through the suggested titles and see what you want to adapt in your class. EnjoySee it on Scoop.

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Here are three good Google Sheets add-ons to ease off your workflow and boost your productivity.Some of the things you can do with these apps include: adding columns and rows with a single click, manage feedback and grading for students, and create PDF and shared documents from spreadsheet data.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Creating image collages can be a nice way for students to summarize the highlights of a school event, demonstrate photography skills, or assemble a little story to introduce themselves to their new classmates in the fall. From Google Drawings, to PicCollage, to PicMonkey there are plenty of tools for making digital image collages. FotoJet Collage Maker is a new-to-me tool to add to the list of options for creating image collages.See it on Scoop.it, via …

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Working on a group project? Or organizing your students for group projects? Here are some tools that can manage the collaboration process for everyone.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Looking for some good resources for students? Here are some notable picks from teachers. All are safe, student-tested, and easy to use.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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DocHub is anther excellent Google Drive tool for filling, editing, and signing PDFs. Compared with similar tools out there in Chrome web store, DocHub is way easier and simpler to handle. You can use it for a variety of purposes including: signing PDFs, highlighting text, inserting images, commenting and adding pages to PDFs and many more.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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The power of video conferencing tools lies in their ability to engage audience through the use of visuals, interactive features and synchronous communication. The most popular free tools in this regard are Google Hangout and Skype. Both of these applications are easy to use and offer a variety of decent features for hosting online meetings and organizing seminars. However, if you are looking for some advanced alternatives, you should definitely consider the tools below. These are premium softwares…

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Today we are introducing you to some good web tools to use for creating maps with students. These are new tools that we are featuring here for the first time. Using these tools students will be able to create custom maps, draw on maps, insert text and custom images to their maps, place markers, and many more.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Content curation is a highly effective inbound marketing strategy and because of this there has been a rise of content curation tools and platforms. So we did what we typically do, we tried to get a good handle on all the options that exist in the market. What follows is our best collection of tools that allow you to easily curate content.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Below is a list of some popular Google Docs add-ons for teachers and educators. These extensions are geared towards enhancing your Google Docs productivity by enabling you to perform a wide range of functionalities that Docs alone would not be able to afford. Some of the things you can do with these add-ons include: create bibliographies and automatically format citations in different citation styles, integrate various accents into your docs, create and insert mind…

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Different people learn differently. That’s always been true, but only in recent years have teachers had access the tools that allow them to really accommodate the many different learning styles present in any given classroom. PowerPoint presentations provide the opportunity to combine many of those tools into one place. In one lesson, you can easily incorporate speech, text, images, videos, and audio.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Today’s collection features a list of some useful new educational web tools we have curated from the piles of emails we have received over the last couple of weeks. The purpose is to provide busy teachers and educators with a handy resource where they can access and keep updated of the latest releases in the world of educational technology.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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CmapTools in the Cloud es el nombre de la versión en línea del programa CmapTools, del IHMC, que permite crear Mapas Conceptuales sin necesidad de instalar un software en el computador, pues simplemente se utiliza una conexión a Internet. Cmappers ofrece una nueva interfaz, no solo con características Web 2.0, sino con facilidades para manipular los mapas y compartirlos con otras personas. En este tutorial presentamos los primeros pasos para iniciarse en el uso…

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As I mentioned in my mailbag post yesterday, Padlet is one of my favorite tools for gathering comments and questions from students. I’ve also used Padlet as a task management tool, as a blogging tool, as a multimedia collage platform, and as a tool for collaborative bookmarking of websites. In the playlist embedded below I explain and demonstrate how to do all of those things with Padlet.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Below are three of our favourite web tools for creating picture quotes. You can use these tools with your students to create beautiful quote posters for your class. These picture quotes can be used as warm-up activities or entry events to project based learning. They could also serve as prompts to brainstorm ideas around a given topic or as educational posters to embellish your classroom walls with nuggets of wisdom.See it on Scoop.

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There are slideshows, printables, lesson plans, downloadable content and guides, videos, and much more. The sites listed below offer lots of stuff for all subjects and grades, so dive in and see what you can dig up.Who doesn’t love free tools, especially free tools for teachers? Happy hunting, teaching, and learning!See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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If you want some ideas for EdTech tools that teachers are using here is a list of tools you might want to try. The list is crowdsourced so if you have a favorite tool please add it to the list. If you have ideas for how to use a tool please add in teaching ideas.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Nothing beats a good face-to-face conversation. But when that isn’t possible, sometimes technology can help. Here are some teacher-tested tools to aid in collaborating with students and colleagues.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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